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On a diesel after the very first initial break in (likely done in the factory) they need some load, to little early on is likely to glaze the bores leading to loss of compression and oil burning. Don't scream it but don't ***** foot it either, make it do what it's designed to do.

That sounds a bit worrying, surely it must have some kind of MCA coding for carrying fare paying passengers, I'd have thought it would be up to a lot more than that.

What you suggest makes sense if you never plan on using the direct discharge option, If you are going to leave the spare pipe attached to the hull valve I'd be tempted to pump any water out and put a drop of neat anti-freeze down it before capping in case of future bad cold snaps when you've forgotten it's there as chances are a drop of water will slowly get past the valve eventually filling the pipe to waterline. I'd take the diverter off and make up a pipe blank to put in there, maybe a bit of 40mm plastic bar turned down to 38mm leaving a couple of small ridges convenient hose clip distances apart and push inside the hose and clip.

Sanitation hose, asap has it, I would guess brian ward would too. Probably 38mm.

Well I had a very quick cycle home and not much peddaling required, luckily also managed to stop.... Anyone fancy coming hang gliding this afternoon? https://hha.co.uk/live-data/wind-speed/

The food van turned up at work this morning and we had to take turns holding on to the lift flap, it wasn't easy, there's more wind blowing than the tail end of BA's lads week! Gonna be a fun cycle home... Normally 1.5 minutes, today it'll either be 10 minutes or 4.7 seconds depending on wind direction at 12.00.

Snuggtopz at brammerton but don't expect anything quickly as there's usually a waiting list for good canopy makers, that said for repairs he's done me a couple of same day jobs last summer as he tends to keep weekends for repair work and do the big stuff during the week.

Possible 30mb pressure drop between today and tomorrow so a sea surface rise of up to 300mm over normal but with wind direction maybe holding it out so possibly not much different from normal. Wouldn't want to be on the west coast though. But I'm no hydrologist or meteorologist so probably safer to read your tea leaves.

I can guarantee that no steel narrowboat ever will sink through osmosis either...

The best fix for osmosis is negotiate a price drop then ignore it, no one has sunk from it, there's a lot of scare stories about it, if it's taken 40 years to get a rash of blisters it will do 40 more.

Good plan indeed, today is meant to be a bit blowy but mostly good, tomorrow is another matter, I don't think eunice is even a hint of a storm yet but the models have got so much better now they have a pretty good idea what it's going to do overnight, they are talking about explosive cyclogenesis which I seem to recall being what caught Michael Fish out albeit unheard of back then (he was right though, there was no hurricane). We've had it fairly easy in st.neots with dudley but I did find a tree down on the morning dog walk this morning, I may have to visit it with the chainsaw on saturday as I doubt clearing a council playing field is a priority, good job I had 2 new chains turn up this week, I feel a log store top up coming on.

Please remember there is no public towpath, all the banks are owned by someone so be careful with that barbie. And wild moorings on the lower reaches is a no no due to the tides. Water runs pretty fast on the lower reaches too, always try to moor into the tide, much bigger tidal range on the southern rivers. And enjoy!

A bit of springing also takes some of the impact out when another boat gets it wrong so never a bad thing.

Copraphagia is the correct term I believe, I'd understood it as something a bitch will often do after a litter as a clean up thing, winston was no bitch though. It was his own he'd eat most of the time so I doubt he got any more minerals than he'd just had, I think he started from seeing us clear up after him, he was a very obliging dog just not always in the right way.

You have to herd them or they herd you? We used to have a right gobby moggy that would stand and shout at us, I was convinced it would get us an asbo.

Is wee willy winkie showing gusts or just background windspeed? Would explain the difference as windguru shows both.

Whatever you do DON'T give them a treat to shut them up or distract them, they just learn that barking gets a reward.

Triggers broom all over again...

I'm firmly in the grp camp, woodies are lovely to look at but they are for someone else to own and fix not me, as for electric loos I really never saw the point of having something power dependent when the manual pumps are so simple and less to go wrong, I regard boating as camping albeit with a few more mod cons and a lot more comfort but it's good to be able to stop somewhere for a few days without having to worry about running out of power or having to stink the neighbours out charging, I guess we all see it for different things.

"Sorry Dr.P it's a lovely big visitor centre but the permission has expired, you'll have to take it down now."

No shouting other than a sharp "norty!" and a slap across the snout (gentle but firm not full on footballer style) got my old dog out his hideous eating habit fairly quickly. You have to make sure it's associated with the behaviour and doesn't coincide with something else each time or they get the wrong message.

Why would anyone in their right mind look to faceache for a weather forecast? I've always liked windguru as you can look at a few different models and take a guess for yourself while showing any crew the nicest looking one so they go along with you.

Ferry does indeed have leccy, you need the cards from the pub not the ba ones, in high winds they often have mooring alongside instead of stern on specially at this time of the year when it's quiet.

There was talk of dudley going further north so the broads may miss the worst, eunice is another matter. Good luck chaps, I'm stopping home this weekend for sure. https://www.windguru.cz/24118 Yikes! Not colours I like to see on windguru!